Feuer Clown I (Fire Clown), 1921

Not on View

Medium

watercolor on paper, laid down on cardboard

Dimensions

overall: 21 x 17.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg

Catalogue Raisonné

Helfenstein 2000, no. 5312

Accession Number

2004.140.12

Artists / Makers

Paul Klee (artist) Swiss, 1879 - 1940

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: Klee; lower left in black ink: 1930 d5. Feuer Clown I

Provenance

Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig. James Wise, New York, until 1955, Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1955 - 1957; Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Berggruen & Cie.
Hertzberg, Lilian and Benjamin, Estate of
Ralfs, Otto
Wise, James

Exhibition History

1967: Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Pasadena Art Museum, 1967, no. 111.

1995: Paul Klee, Im Zeichen der Teilung, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1995, 359.

Bibliography

1955: Brion, Marcel. Klee. Paris, 1955: plate III.

1998: The Paul Klee Foundation. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. New York, 1998 - 2004: vol. 5, no. 5312.